Traveling with Long Hair
One of the challenges of having long hair is coping with it when you have to take a long trip. My hair, which rarely tangles badly most times, knots up something fierce on a long trip if I don’t take precautions. So what do I do?
It’s pretty simple really… I braid it!
A braid keeps it out of the way and certainly prevents tangles. Of course, I also make sure to use something hair-friendly to keep the braid in. No point ruining then ends of my hair for sheer lack of proper care.
The fun part is that then you have lovely, wavy hair when you undo it at the end. You can release your hair at the end of the trip,give it a quick brushing, and look like you spent time working on it before you started. I love looking good at the end of a grueling trip. It makes me feel better about the whole thing.
Those trips in which I haven’t braided my hair I’ve always regretted it on arrival. My hair will look terrible, and fixing it is difficult and time consuming. A braid may look a little frazzled by the end, but undoing the braid and brushing the hair takes much less time than if it had not been braided.
